Hani Abd al-Latif Tilfah

Hani Abd al-Latif Tilfah was the Director of the Special Security Organization of Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Hani Abd al-Latif Tilfah was born in Tikrit, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he was a devoted member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. Saddam Hussein made him the director of the Special Security Organization of Ba'athist Iraq during his dictatorship in the country, and Tilfah led the SSO in putting down political dissidents and all other enemies of the Saddam regime. Tilfah was one of the government officials that the United States sought to capture during their invasion in 2003 at the start of the Iraq War, but he managed to evade capture and went into hiding from the MNF-I forces.